We
consider a special gift of God that we have the opportunity to organize the
52nd International Eucharistic Congress in 2020 in Budapest. We can celebrate
Jesus in the Eucharist, we can remember his faithfulness and express our hope
in him. We are preparing for the celebration of the Congress by saying this
prayer in our churches week after week. Our desire is to get closer to the
mystery of the Eucharist as individuals and as a community, and to be attuned
to the gift of grace which Jesus prepares for us, for our nation, for Europe
and for the word through the celebration of the Congress.

The
prayer calls us to prepare the way for the Lord with deep spirituality and
active love.

"Heavenly Father, source of all life! Send us your Holy Spirit,that we may recognize and grow in the love of Christ present in the Eucharist,who handed himself over for us!"

The
Heavenly Father is the source of all life. The Triune God's life's dynamics is
provided by the momentum of love. Love is an inner force and an engagement,
which makes us hand ourselves over and become one with the loved one. Love is
strength, love is engagement, attention, tenderness and benevolence.

We
don't have a technical equipment which could help us to perceive the interior
life of God. However, when we feel deep and true love, somehow we might
experience the reality and the life of God: his creative, liberating, caring
love.

Jesus
Christ present in the Eucharist is the real heaven among us. Under the
appearances of bread and wine he invites us to enter into the life of the Holy
Trinity. We don't have a technical equipment on earth to perceive "God's
heartbeat". There is much more here: Himself.

Contemplating
Christ present in the Eucharist we discover how is someone who loves. Remaining
completely himself, while his divine reality is hidden under the appearances of
bread and wine. He is able to be simple. He makes himself available. He has the
courage to give himself to others. He is making sacrifices. He is able to
undertake his fragility and smallness. He accomplishes his power and dignity by
giving freedom to the other person: exposes himself to love.

He is our Lord and our Master, our friend and our food,our healer and our peace.Give us the courage to take his strength andhis joy to every person!

We
confess Jesus Our Lord, Our God, he is Our Master. He is a
person who has the majesty and the dignity which can help us to find the way of
love and life. When we contemplate and receive him in the Eucharist, he wants
to form and shape us himself.

He
is a friend for us, deeply knowing our human reality. Nothing of the
humans is unfamiliar to him. That is why we can turn to him with confidence in
any situation. He is a friend, who encourages us and sometimes confronts us
with our weaknesses which we should change or improve. During the quiet times
spent with him - during the Eucharistic adorations - two friends spend their
time together. Once one of us is speaking, the other time the other. Sometimes
we are quiet. We are looking at each other. We are listening to each other.
When friends encounter sometimes big things happen, other times it is only
about being together. On occasion, difficult or painful things arise in us
during an adoration - or a friendly meeting.

Jesus
isn't scared of our pains and infirmities. Jesus present is the Eucharist is
our healer.He wants to heal our fears, our deepest
concerns. He is true God and true man. He is the only one who is able to heal
the anxieties arising from our finiteness, our concerns over losses and our
pains caused by decay. In the presence of the Eucharist we find ourselves in
the reality of the eternal Love. This experience has a healing power.

Jesus
in the Eucharist is our food and our peace. When we receive the
Eucharist, Jesus enters in our soul and our body in flesh and blood. He comes
to us, who died and rose again for us. And he says in a personal way inside of
us: Peace be with you! And we might say like the earliest disciples - Mary
Magdalene and Apostle Thomas: "We have seen, we have touched, we have sensed
the Lord!".

Love
makes us to be together, to become one with the loved one. At the same time it
is a surprise. In a true loving relationship there is a lot more than we would
think or hope. Love goes beyond the loving relationship itself. It leads
further, enlarges, it is full of patience and if necessary it forgives. We need
courage to move on starting from the experience of spiritual intimacy. That is
why we ask the Father to encourage us by His Holy Spirit, to share the joy
experienced with Jesus with others.

Grant us, that the time of the preparation and the celebration of the Eucharistic Congress would serve the spiritual renewal of our community, cities, nation,Europe and the world.

The
celebration of the Eucharist integrates the whole world in the holy presence of
God. Jesus identifies himself with simple and natural material things: with the
bread, fruit of the earth, and the wine, fruit oh the vine. Both of them
require the work of human hands, toil and care. In the celebration of the Holy
Mass the ordained priest takes these created things into his hands, and these
transform into the Body and Blood of Jesus. The ministry of priests principally
lies in uniting the votive offerings of the faithful to the sacrifice of Jesus
and in sanctifying the people (cf. CCC 1566). The priestly ministry enhances
the communion, the loving relationship between God and humans.

Through
the common priesthood all Christians are called to strive for the
sanctification of the world. The priest takes the bread and the wine in his
hands and offers them to God. Christians' vocation is to raise to God
everything what is entrusted to them in the created world. The creation waits
in eager expectation for the revelation of the sons of God (Romans 8:19),
because the whole creation is called to shine through the holiness of the
presence of God. When we pray for the spiritual renewal of our community,
cities, nation, Europe and the world we have a sense of the responsibility for
the world we live in.

At
this point the vocal prayer finishes. The prayer follows the logic of the
Eucharist, it gives us a mission: step out of our internal spiritual room,
leave our churches, and seek in our world where God's sanctifying presence is
needed. Let's notice how the creation waits in eager expectation for the
revelation of the sons of God, and where active love and the acts of mercy are
needed the most.